Multiple Choice Questions 591 to 600 deal with the adjectives which describe lips.
1. Names in brackets are those of the authors who used the phrases.
2. Phrases shown in italics have been used in the Quiz questions. Pl. fill the blanks with the italicised phrases.
3. If you chose, you can compare your answers with the key, Click.
4. Your answers need not agree with the key. Choosing the right words is, always, a question of individual preference.
LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES WHICH DESCRIBE 'LIPS'
Angelic lips (H. Kendall), Alien lips (W.E. Russel), Ardent lips (J.C. Powys), Astonished lips (Victor Hugo)
Bashful lips (W.M. Thackeray), bearded lips, beloved lips (H. Rider Haggard), bewitching lips, Bitten lips and bated breath (Herman Melville), black lips (Wordsworth and Coleridge), blackened lips, bloodhound lips (George Bernard Shaw in his Caesar and Cleopatra), blubber lips, brazen lips (Francis Thompson), bright lips, broad lips, buckled lips (Emily Dickinson)
Carmined lips (Fannie Hurst), chapped lips, cherry lips, cleft lips, cold lips, compressed lips (M.F. Gibbon), coral lips (W.S. Gilbert), coward lips (Shakespeare), cracked lips, credulous lips (Arthur Weir)
Dainty lips, delicate lips, dewy lips, DRY LIPS half opened and panting (Charlotte M Young), DYING lips (Elizabeth Robins).
Eager lips
Fair lips, fevered lips, fresh lips, frozen lips
Garrulous lips (Walt Whitman), ghostly lips, gulping lips
Half-opened lips, half-shut lips (Sir Walter Scot), healing lips (William Congreve)
Joined lips
Iced lips (Jack London)
Lily lips (Shakespeare), living lips, Locked lips, lovely lips
Maddening lips of wine (Margeret Sprague Carhart), Moist lips, mortal lips (Emily Dickinson), moving lips
Nether lip
Parched lips (Erasmus Darwin), parted lips, passionate lips (Goethe), peaceful lips, perfumed lips, pouting lips (Gilbert and Sullivan), pretty lips, pure lips, undefiled lips
Quivering lips
Rebel lips (Ralph Chaplin), red lips, ripe lips (Shakespeare), rosebud lips (Ella Rodman), rosy lips
Sad lips, sensitive lips, sensual lips, shaggy lips (William Hayley), SKINNIE lips (Shakespeare), sighing lips (Thomas Moore), sleeping lips (B.E. Stevenson), smiling lips, soft lips, SOFT UNDER lip, Sore lips, split lips, still lips, sugary lips, sunken lips, sweet lips, swelling lips
Tender lips (G. Hamilton), thick lips, thickish lips, thin lips, timid lips (W.M. Thackeray), trembling lips
Undiscoverable lips (William Watson), Unembittered lips (Sara Teasdale)
Voiceless lips (D.A. Mackenzie)
Warm lips, white lips
591. _______ lips can be treated with beeswax and petrolatum (Vaseline).
592. A child may get _____ lips genetically. The congenital defect arises when the child is born with a separated upper lip.
593. Those flaxen locks, those eyes of blue
Bright as thy mother's in their hue;
Those ____ lips, whose dimples play
And smile to steal the heart away,
Recall a scene of former joy,
And touch thy father's heart, my Boy!
[Lord Byron in his poem 'To my son'].
594.You smile, with faintly ________ lips,
You loose your thoughts like birds,
Brushing our dreams with soft and shadowy words . .
We know your words are foolish, yet sit here bound
In tremulous webs of sound.
[Conrad Aiken in his poem 'The House of Dust'].
595. Lucius: Stand all aloof;--but, uncle, draw you near,
To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk.--
O, take this warm kiss on thy pale ____ lips.
[William Shakespeare in his play 'The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus'].
596. In appearance, the Hopi and Havasupai are more alike than either are like to the Navaho. As a rule, the Hopi is well built and stalwart, with the unmistakable Indian face, but with less coarse and _______ lips, higher and more intellectual brow, more alert and kindly eye, and stronger chin than the Havasupai. [George Wharton James in his book 'The Grand Canyon of Arizona'].
597. "Poems?" she repeated, just a trifle blankly; then, seeing the hurt in his face, about the sensitive and ________ lips, she put out a quick, penitent hand. "Let me see them--at once!" [Katharine Newlin Burt in her book 'Hidden Creek'].
598.Such a turn
Kind fortune never do me. Shall I kiss
To life these ______ lips?--No!--of her plight
'Twere base to take advantage.
[James Sheridan Knowles in his play 'The Love-Chase'].
599.Too well those ______ lips disclose
The triumphs of the opening Rose;
O fair! O graceful! bid them prove
As passive to the breath of Love.
[S.T. Coleridge in his poem 'The Kiss'].
600. Whether his sophistries satisfied him or not, they satisfied her. She clung to his breast, and whispered, with closed eyes and quivering lips: "Yes, yes, yes!" [William Dean Howells in his 'Between The Dark And The Daylight'].
